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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: health of Stepstone and ObjC
Message-ID: <1991May23.075820.983@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 07:58:20 GMT
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In article <1991May23.031433.11017@netcom.COM>
 rkitts@netcom.COM (Rick Kitts) writes:
>In article <2058@camex.COM> geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) writes:
>>I've been hearing ugly rumors that IBM dropped NeXTStep and that
>>Stepstone and Objective-C are in trouble.  Someone please tell me this
>>is disinformation.
>
>I spoke with the president of Stepstone today regarding Stepstones 
>financial situation. I was told by the person who answered the phone
>(not the pres) that SS was undergoing a ``reorganization'' and that
>``very(?) few employees were left.''. The president then informed me

I am a bit confused.

How critical is Stepstone's continued operation to NeXT and NeXT
users?

What part of NeXT software is directly dependent on Stepstone?

I am confused because I thought Objective-C compiler technology
is now/soon part of GNU compiler, which is free.

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